Grades/Level: Adult Learners
Subjects: Visual Arts, English-Language Arts, ESL
Time Required: 30–45 minutes
Author: Getty Museum Education Staff

Featured Getty Artwork: 
Portrait of the Marquesa de Santiago by Francisco Goya 
	On the Web: http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=823 
Bust of a Man by Francis Harwood
 	On the Web: http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=1402 

Lesson Overview: 
Students will spend more time looking at details and write an imagined interview with a sitter.

Learning Objectives: 
Students use portrait vocabulary to answer questions about visual images.

Materials:  
- One of the two featured Getty artworks
- Looking at Portraits Vocabulary. Download RTF: 	http://www.getty.edu/education/for_teachers/curricula/esl/downloads/portraits_vocab.rtf
- Student Activity Sheet: Interview. Download RTF:
http://www.getty.edu/education/for_teachers/curricula/esl/downloads/interview_activity_sheet.rtf

Lesson Steps:
- Have students pretend they are newspaper reporters and their assignment is to interview this man or woman. Ask them to take out their “Interview” activity sheet. Students should imagine possible answers based on careful observation of the sitter.

-	If you are working with Bust of a Man by Francis Harwood, explain to students that often we can’t identify the person in a portrait. Not all portraits are commissioned; an artist might simply choose to make a portrait of someone as a study or an example of a type of person. 

- Give students enough time to work on their interviews. Ask them to write complete sentences and to explain their answers using their new vocabulary. (For example: Her posture, and attire show that she is a wealthy woman who is very proud..)

- Ask students to share their answers with the class. If you do not have time for everyone to share all their answers, ask each person to share only one from their interview sheet.

Enrichment Activities 
Have students answer the following questions: 

-	What do you think the artist wanted to communicate about the sitter? 

-	Explain your answer.

-     If this person were speaking, what would he or she say?

-	Does he or she remind you of anyone you know? If so, compare the characteristics of the two people.